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- * = stuff i haven't personally read yet, or don't remember if I read as a kid
- Beowulf
- Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
- Cervantes - Don Quixote*
- Conrad - Heart of Darkness* (also watch Apocalypse Now)
- Dazai - No Longer Human*
- Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities*
- Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
- Doyle - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo*
- Dumas - The Man in the Iron Mask
- Epic of Gilgamesh
- Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
- Freud - Civilization and Its Discontents
- Gardner - Grendel
- Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
- Hesse - Siddhartha
- Hobbes - Leviathan
- Homer - The Iliad
- Homer - The Odyssey
- Huxley - Brave New World
- Joyce - Ulysses
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- Machiavelli - The Prince
- Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
- Melville - Moby Dick
- Mill - Utilitarianism
- Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of Morality
- Orwell - 1984
- Orwell - Animal Farm
- Poe - collection of short stories
- Shakespeare - pick a compilation of plays
- Shelley - Frankenstein
- Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
- Stoker - Dracula (annotated version by Leonard Wolf if possible)
- Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Thoreau - Civil Disobedience
- Tocqueville - Democracy in America*
- Twain - Huckleberry Finn*
- Updike - Brazil*
- Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle
- Williams (Tennessee) - pick a compilation of plays
- Wodehouse - any Jeeves stuff
- sci-fi
- Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Asimov - Foundation series
- Banks - Culture series
- Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
- Brunner - Stand on Zanzibar
- Dick (Philip K.) - anything by him really
- Heinlein - Starship Troopers
- Herbert - Dune
- Lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness
- Sleator - Interstellar Pig
- Stephenson - Snow Crash
- Verne - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
- Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days
- science
- Diamond - Guns, Germs and Steel*
- Feynman (Richard) - pretty much anything
- Gleick - Chaos: Making a New Science
- history
- Grimsley - And Keep Moving On: The Virginia Campaign, May-June 1864
- Trudeau - Bloody Roads South: The Wilderness to Cold Harbor, May-June 1864
- meh/don't bother:
- Ayn Rand
- Cooper - The Last of the Mohicans
- Herodotus - The History
- Tolstoy - War and Peace
- Voltaire - Candide
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